As for Berliners pining to stroll through the Ishtar Gate, flanked by a magnificent menagerie of sacred Babylonian animals, they should remember that for 2,500 years it was never possible.

对于渴望漫步穿过两侧是巴比伦神圣动物的宏伟动物园的柏林人来说，他们应该记住，2500 年来这是不可能的。